You may have noticed that cloud computing and storage concerns are becoming increasingly common in and around your daily tasks. This week, Developer Christian Mütze has a helpful tip for connecting your local PC to Microsoft’s cloud storage platform, Azure.

Go to your Azure Portal, and from there to your Storage account resource group.

Select Files.

Create a new File Share.

Once it is created, press the Connect button.

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Copy and paste the shell command or the PowerShell command – and apply it on your local machine.

When it is completed without any errors, you will be able to access your Azure files from your local machine – just like a network drive.